Claims that British military personnel committed sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi civilians are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.
Lawyers acting for former Iraqi detainees are calling for a full public inquiry into 33 abuse claims made during British military involvement in Iraq, among the allegations is that two soldiers raped a 16-year-old boy [...]

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The UK government should not rely on unreliable “diplomatic assurances” against torture to deport national security suspects to Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the UK government.
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Reprieve is currently working urgently on behalf of Samantha Orobator, a twenty year old British woman in jail in Laos. Samantha, who is also pregnant with a child due on 6th September, is now facing a hastily arranged trial and possible death sentence.
Samantha left home in July 2008 for a holiday and, after visiting the [...]

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The footage of a police officer shoving a man to the ground at a G20 protest minutes before he died has raised serious concerns about the incident and the subsequent process of inquiry into it.
The video was recorded by a New York fund manager in London on the 1st April during the G20 meeting. It [...]

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Four men, Dr Vincent Bajinya, Charles Munyaneza, Celestin Ugirashebuja and Emmanuel Nteziryayo have won their High Court case to stop them being extradited to Rwanda to face mass murder charges.
Senior judges in the case ruled that there was a real risk they would suffer a flagrant denial of justice as defence witnesses in Rwanda were [...]

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Rwanda has managed the extraordinary feat of reconstructing state and society after the devastating 1994 genocide in which three-quarters of the minority Tutsi population was annihilated. This conference assesses where Rwanda is now – and where it is heading – with respect to good governance, human rights, civil society, economic development, reconciliation, post-genocide justice, and [...]

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Document 7, the UK’s only film festival dedicated to international human rights, will take place in October 2009 in Glasgow. Now in its 7th year, the festival is seeking submissions (deadline: 5th June 2009) which help us understand the world around us. From politically charged frontline reportage to cinematic explorations of what it is to [...]

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The University of Oxford symposium, “15 Years after Genocide: Where Now for Rwanda?” will take place in the Lecture Theatre, Social Sciences Building, Oxford, UK from 2pm to 6:30pm on 17 March and will be hosted by Oxford Transitional Justice Research, the Oxford Institute for Law, Ethics and Armed Conflict, and the European Studies Centre [...]

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The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is organizing the first “World Conference on Untouchability” at Conway Hall Humanist Centre, London, UK, on June 9 and 10, 2009. The conference will bring together activists and experts from around the world to explore a problem that afflicts nearly 250 million people in countries from Japan to [...]

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After nearly four and a half years in Guantánamo Bay and a long battle with the US authorities, Binyam Mohamed has finally been released, and landed at RAF Northholt airbase in the UK earlier today.
Binyam was met by a doctor and his lawyers, Clive Stafford Smith and Gareth Pierce and is to go somewhere quiet [...]

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